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Christopher J. Williams Deputy Director (Acting), Integrated Aviation Systems Program Christopher J. Williams is the deputy director (acting) for ARMD’s Integrated Aviation Systems Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. In collaboration with the program director, Williams supports the overall…
The removal of sulphur from shipping fuels caused ‘a lot of extra sunlight’ to get through atmosphere and hit reef in 2022 Steps to clean up the shipping industry by removing sulphur from fuels intensified a major coral bleaching event…
The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed.
Described by one researcher as looking ‘already dead’, the enigmatic creatures are one of the least understood species on the planet It looks more like a worn sock than a fearsome predator. It moves slower than an escalator. By most…
Aqqaluk Lynge was 19 years old when an American B-52 bomber carrying four thermonuclear weapons as well as conventional bombs crashed off the northwest coast of Greenland, the island where Lynge was born and raised. That was January 1968, and…
The Village of Sauget in St. Clair County, Illinois, was founded in order to be polluted. Incorporated in 1926 by a group of Monsanto Chemical Company executives (and initially named “Monsanto”) it was and is an industry town: with deliberately…
One year ago, with one of the first strokes of his presidential Sharpie, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national energy emergency,” making good on a campaign promise to “drill, baby, drill.” It was the first of…
Manual for building design aims to encourage low-carbon construction as alternative to steel and concrete An airport made of bamboo? A tower reaching 20 metres high? For many years, bamboo has been mostly known as the favourite food of giant…
Exclusive: Beijing, Delhi, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro among worst affected, with demand close to exceeding supply Half the world’s 100 largest cities are experiencing high levels of water stress, with 39 of these sitting in regions of “extremely…
It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought You get up and go to the loo, only to find the flush doesn’t work. You try the shower,…